Sentence examples for be interpreted to apply from inspiring English sources

What's worse, she wrote, when the bills become law, they may be interpreted to apply to gay and lesbian couples who are raising children.

While the exact scope of the new authority has yet to be tested in court, experts said there might be some circumstances in which it could be interpreted to apply to security contractors, like those supplied by Blackwater.

They said, in an opinion written by Justice Breyer, that the law should be interpreted to apply only to a narrow category of obscene material and should be upheld on that basis.

Taken literally, the official said, the provision could be interpreted to apply only to the moment of the bill's passage in 2005, even if hybrid alternatives would not be available once the Taxi of Tomorrow was fully implemented.

Christopher T. Dunn, the associate legal director of the civil liberties union and lead counsel in the case, said in a telephone interview that the settlement could be interpreted to apply to any federal building anywhere in the country under the aegis of the protective service.

Moore argued that the U.S. Supreme Court had only explicitly struck down same-sex marriage bans in Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee in its landmark decision Obergefell v. Hodges -- although he acknowledges that based on well-established precedent, the ruling may be interpreted to apply to other states' bans as well.

The Alien Tort Claims Act has been interpreted to apply only to genocide, war crimes, piracy, slavery, torture, unlawful detention and summary execution.

CNET is correct that it has no other advance notice provision and that if the Notice Bylaw is interpreted to apply only to 14a-8 proposals, then "any of CNET's thousands of stockholders are free to raise for the first time and present any proposals they desire at the Annual Meeting".

In fact, the wording of the Wire Act has been interpreted to apply to American companies and people who place and lay bets, essentially bookmakers and casino operators.

Because the statute was interpreted to apply only to physical goods, the court declined to "stretch or update statutory words of plain and ordinary meaning in order to better accommodate the digital age".

In 1660, the prohibition was interpreted to apply to gifts of land.